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I’m often asked how to make presentations more effervescent. How they can have more fizz. Or, worst of all, “Can you make my presentation pop?” Well, the answer is yes. By applying some key principles of presentation design, you can make your PowerPoint design really standout and deliver both a more ...

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Agencies that don’t work in PowerPoint a lot don’t appreciate how long things take. If an agency is used to delivering more ‘conceptual’ work, the attention to detail and sheer number of iterations necessary to get PowerPoint right can come as a ...

The result was a disaster. We really like this client, so there wasn’t even a feeling of schadenfreude. Instead, I think the problems they suffered might serve to inform other companies before making the same mistake. If you want to work with your regular (marketing) agency for presentation design ...

It’s important that you use small chunks of information on your slide, rather than showing your audience everything all at once. This helps them retain the information since you control the pace, rather than them rushing ahead and reading the text on screen before you’re ready to talk about it. This ...

Written Instructions: Hold Shift and select the multiple objects that you want to include in your waterfall animation. It’s important that these objects already have animation attached to them. Navigate to Utilities on the BrightSlide tab, then select Waterfall delay. You also have the option to ...

This new BrightSlide feature means that you can choose whether the first or last object that you select is used as a reference in special BrightSlide features like Align To, Match Size, Add To Group and Animate To. You can set your preference in the new Settings tab by selecting Set Reference Shape ...

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When it first hit the virtual shelves we gave you a run-down of its best features, and two years on it has even more to offer. Here are the top 5 features we think you should know about:

Split & Align
What does it do?

It allows you to split one large shape into phone numbers ...

While flashing up a bunch of logos might give your prospect some confidence in you, including relevant testimonials or case studies slotted into a meaningful presentation structure and linked to your USPs is going to be a more effective strategy. If you claim to be more cost effective or faster than ...

Why do it this way round? Once your audience acknowledges they have a problem, they start to think about how they can to solve it. You set up tension which you can resolve by providing the solution – you!

The ideal

Rather than just listing everything you can do, or all your products and specs, try ...

Every single slide in your sales presentation needs to earn its place. It should contribute to your story to persuade your prospect to change their behaviour. However, at BrightCarbon we see certain “filler” slides cropping up again and again. It’s time to look at your sales presentation with a ...